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Welcome to Data Protection Insider, your biweekly digest of the latest developments in EU data protection law. Each issue brings you insightful analysis of recent court rulings, legislative updates and regulatory changes that impact data protection across the European Union. Stay informed and deepen your understanding of the evolving data protection legal landscape with our biweekly updates.

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23. July 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 28
– CJEU Strikes down Privacy Shield in Schrems II – On 16th July, the CJEU handed down its much-awaited decision in Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland Ltd, Maximillian Schrems (Shrems II). Basically, the case dealt with whether Facebook could use the SCC mechanism to transfer personal data to the US, despite the fact that US law foresees extensive possibilities for […]
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9. July 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 27
– ECtHR Rules on Data Processing and Religion – On 25th June, the ECtHR ruled in the case of Stavropoulos and others v. Greece. The facts of the case were as follows: the applicants registered the birth of their child at a registry office in Greece. The registry office noted, alongside the name of their child, the word ‘naming’. The term […]
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25. June 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 26
– ECtHR Rules on Retention of Personal Data for Law-Enforcement Purposes – On 11th June, the ECtHR issued its ruling in the P.N. v Germany case, concerning the collection and storage of personal data for law enforcement purposes. According to the facts of the case, the applicant had been charged with, and convicted several times of, different types of crimes. Because […]
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11. June 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 25
– ECtHR Decides on Disclosure of Sensitive Medical Data – On 26th May, the ECtHR issued its ruling in the P.T. v the Republic of Moldova case, concerning the disclosure of sensitive medical data. In terms of the facts of the case: the applicant is a HIV-positive citizen. He needed a certificate issued by the Military Centre that he was unable […]
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28. May 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 24
– ECtHR Rules on the Balance between Privacy and Freedom of Expression – On 14th May the ECtHR issued its ruling in Rodina v Latvia on an Article 8 ECHR complaint. The case concerned the media attention given to a familial conflict. The applicant’s mother and sister made claims that the applicant sold her mother’s apartment after the applicant’s mother was […]
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14. May 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 23
– ECtHR Rules on Journalist’s Right to Privacy – In Khadija Ismayilova v. Azerbaijan (no.3) the ECtHR dealt with the balance between privacy and freedom of expression. According to the facts of the case, the applicant is an investigative journalist in Azerbaijan who published articles critical of the government – including concerning government corruption. In 2012, she was secretly filmed in […]
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30. April 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 22
– EDPB Holds 21st-24th Plenary Sessions – Since the 7th April, the EDPB has held four Plenary Sessions. The focus of each of these sessions has been data protection in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak. Across these sessions, the EDPB has adopted the following six documents: A response to a letter from the United States Mission to the European Union concerning […]
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11. April 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 21
– Advocate General Opinion on Data Protection vs IPR – On 2nd April, Advocate General (AG) Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered his Opinion in an intellectual properties rights dispute (Constantin Film Verleih GmbH v Google Inc and Youtube LLC). The dispute concerns two Google and Youtube users who uploaded two films of Constantin Film Verleih GmbH on Google and Youtube. Constatin Film Verleih […]
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2. April 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 20
– ECtHR and Disclosure of Politicians’ CVs – On 26th March, the ECtHR issued a ruling concerning the balance between the right to privacy (Article 8 ECHR) and the right to freedom of expression (Article 10 ECHR). According to the facts of the case, a Ukrainian NGO – the Centre for Democracy and the Rule of Law – requested copies of […]
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19. March 2020  |   by DPI Editorial Team

Data Protection Insider, Issue 19
– The CJEU and Consent Procedures: Opt-Out as Consent? – On 4th March 2020, Advocate General Szpunar delivered his Opinion in the case of Orange Romania. The referring court had asked whether individuals who intend to enter into a contract with a telecommunication services provider – Orange Romania in casu – can have given their freely given, informed and specific consent […]
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DPI Editorial Team

Dara Hallinan, Editor: Legal academic working at FIZ Karlsruhe. His specific focus is on the interaction between law, new technologies – particularly ICT and biotech – and society. He studied law in the UK and Germany, completed a Master’s in Human Rights and Democracy in Italy and Estonia and wrote his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the better regulation of genetic privacy in biobanks and genomic research through data protection law. He is also programme director for the annual Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference.

Diana Dimitrova, Editor: Researcher at FIZ Karlsruhe. Focus on privacy and data protection, especially on rights of data subjects in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Completed her PhD at the VUB on the topic of ‘Data Subject Rights: The rights of access and rectification in the AFSJ’. Previously, legal researcher at KU Leuven and trainee at EDPS. Holds LL.M. in European Law from Leiden University.

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